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A historical guide to Walt Whitman, edited by David S. Reynolds

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A historical guide to Walt Whitman, edited by David S. Reynolds

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index

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contains biographical information

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A historical guide to Walt Whitman

Nature of contents

bibliographyhandbooks

Oclc number

40675115

Responsibility statement

edited by David S. Reynolds

Series statement

Historical guides to American authors

Summary

Few authors are so well suited to historical study as Whitman, who is widely considered America's greatest poet. This Guide combines contemporary cultural studies and historical scholarship to illuminate Whitman's diverse contexts. The essays explore dimensions of Whitman's dynamic relationship to working-class politics, race and slavery, sexual mores, the visual arts, and the idea of democracy. The poet who emerges from this volume is no "solitary singer," distanced from his culture, but what he himself called "the age transfigured," fully enmeshed in his times and addressing issues that are still vital today

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